نص يوم

Hajj Mokhtar Al-Hattab (Alaa Zeinhom) lives in a residential compound with his daughter Salwa (Maryam Saeed Saleh), a PhD holder in sociology, and her son, medical student Alaa. When Hajj Mokhtar notices his engineer son Omar is missing, Salwa tells him that Omar had breakfast and rushed out early. However, Mokhtar learns from the maid Zahra (Eman Salem) and her husband, the gardener Bayoumi (Ashraf Al-Mohandes)—both recently hired at the villa—that they haven't seen Omar. Mokhtar tasks Bayoumi with searching for Omar throughout the compound. Suspecting his son might have traveled abroad, Mokhtar checks travel passenger records; finding no trace of his departure, he asks his young neighbor, Dr. Hossam (Ahmed Azmi), to look for Omar in local hospitals. With no answers in sight, Dr. Hossam advises him to report the matter to the police. When a con artist (Zaki Lougo) gets wind of the situation, he calls Mokhtar demanding a 50,000-pound ransom, but Major Essam (Ahmed Mounir) apprehends the scammer. The neighbors rally to comfort Hajj Mokhtar and assist in the search for Omar, joined by anti-bullying social activist Somaya Mourad (Enas Al-Naggar), who had previously suffered a bout of depression when her father Mourad (Tarek Rateb) decided to remarry after her mother's passing. That wedding was called off and Somaya spent time in a sanatorium, yet her father later remarried in secret. Somaya teams up with Dr. Hossam in searching for Omar, and a mutual attraction blossoms between them. They are joined by neighbor's son Tamer (Mido Merzaban), who takes them to the house of madame Shoushou (Shorouk), hoping Omar might be there; failing to find him, they are caught in a police raid targeting Shoushou and her girls, but the search group manages to escape. Tamer then directs them to El-Moallem El-Mazag (Abdallah Meshref), a drug dealer, where Omar is also nowhere to be found; however, the dealer exploits Dr. Hossam's medical background to extract a bullet lodged in a henchman's arm. Meanwhile, a terrorist group plotting against the nation's progress kidnaps another engineer named Omar who is working on a vital national initiative, aiming to derail the project. The police successfully rescue the captive, and everyone initially assumes he is the missing engineer, only for the truth to emerge that he is not the one they seek. The bond between Dr. Hossam and Somaya deepens after she suffers an emotional breakdown upon discovering her father's secret marriage; Dr. Hossam stays by her side, consoling her and helping her through her psychological crisis. Meanwhile, Hajj Mokhtar breaks down as well, accusing his daughter Salwa of deceit and claiming she resents her half-brother Omar because he was born to a different mother. Driven to the limit, Salwa is forced to reveal the truth to the neighbors: years earlier, Omar was supposed to join his colleagues on a trip, but stayed behind. A horrific accident befell the tour bus, and Hajj Mokhtar rushed to the crash site to search for his son among the dead and wounded. Finding no trace of him, he was reassured by Salwa that Omar was sleeping safely in his room; however, when Mokhtar returned home, he found that Omar had passed away peacefully in bed. Overwhelmed by shock, his mind refused to accept Omar's death, stubbornly clinging to the belief that his son was still alive and that Salwa was merely trying to cushion the blow. The neighbors disperse, praying for Hajj Mokhtar's recovery. Years later, Somaya finds peace and comes to terms with her father's marriage—especially after he fathers a baby boy—and she accepts Dr. Hossam's proposal. (Nos Youm)

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